Being More ‘Open:’ Black Women Negotiate Dating and Marrying White Men

Reposted with permission from the blog of Chinyere Osuji.  When I was studying at Harvard in the early 2000s, I had a black immigrant professor who had built part of his career gas-lighting anti-black discrimination in favor of 1990s-style black cultural inferiority tropes. My grad school girlfriends and I awkwardly giggled over “the sex parts” … Continue reading Being More ‘Open:’ Black Women Negotiate Dating and Marrying White Men